yes, a hippopotamus is sometimes referred to as a river horse.
another word for hippo is water horse
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A horse is just the name of the animal and Quarter Horse is a name of a breed of horse.
A young horse is a foal; a young female horse is a filly.
hippopotamus hippo= horse pot= river/ water
Afonfarch (river-horse)
Hippopotamus: hippo = horse; potamos = river
A Hippopotamus
The two living species of hippo are the Nile Hippo (Hippopotamus amphibius) and the Pygmy Hippo (Hexaprotodon liberiensis).
hippo (short for hippopotamus) means ιπποπόταμος; the word is greek to begin with! ANSWER: Hippopotamus means "river horse," from the Greek words for horse (ippos) and river (potami). So "hippo" means "horse."
It was the river horse.
Hippopotamus amphibius is ancient Greek for "river horse".
hippo (from the Greek) - horse potamos (from the Greek) - river
The word derives from ancient Greece, meaning "horse of the river".
το άλογο means " the horse " in MODERN Greek the word hippopatomus is from the ancient word for horse which is "ippos" plus the word for river which is "potamos" - don't know why the English insist on putting a consonent such as H in front of every Greek name and word that starts with a vowel but it is IPPOS not HIPPO......... That is why they sometimes call the hippo the horse of the river.
Hippopotamus is from the ancient Greek and means River Horse, because hippos spend most of the daytime keeping cool in a river or lake.